Raleigh-Durham Gains More Residents From Charlotte Than It Loses
by John Egan
November 21, 2016
Charlotte has a Raleigh-Durham deficit.
From 2010 to 2014, an average of 4,961 people per year moved from Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina’s second biggest population center) Charlotte (North Carolina’s biggest population center), a LawnStarter analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. Yet during the same period, an average of 5,728 people per year relocated from the Charlotte area to the Raleigh-Durham area.
The upshot: Stacked up against Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte had an annual deficit of 767 residents from 2010 to 2014.
In terms of new residents, Charlotte’s loss is Raleigh-Durham’s gain.
Photo: Flickr/Harshil Shah
Rebecca Tippett, director of Carolina demography for the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, suggests a key reason for the new-resident gap between the two metro areas: high school graduates from the Charlotte area heading off to college. Raleigh-Durham is home to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University in Raleigh and Duke University in Durham.
For our analysis, we combined population data for the Raleigh and Durham-Chapel Hill metro areas. The Census Bureau treats them as two metro areas, while people in the region lump the pair together as the Research Triangle. Later in this article, you’ll find out which metros delivered the most new residents to the Raleigh metro area from 2010 to 2014.
Raleigh-Durham is home to several major schools, including the University of North Carolina.
Photo: UNC School of Medicine
Charlotte to Research Triangle
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Residents who relocated per year from Charlotte to Raleigh: 3,191
Residents who relocated per year from Charlotte to Durham-Chapel Hill: 2,537
Residents who relocated per year from Charlotte to Raleigh-Durham: 5,728
Research Triangle to Charlotte
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Residents who relocated per year from Raleigh to Charlotte: 3,252
Residents who relocated per year from Durham-Chapel Hill to Charlotte: 1,709
Residents who relocated per year from Raleigh-Durham to Charlotte: 4,961
Top 12 Suppliers of New Residents
So, which metros supplied the most new residents per year to the Raleigh metro area in 2010 to 2014? Here are the top 12.
1. Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
5,467 residents per year
2. New York, NY
3,352 residents per year
2. New York, NY
3,352 residents per year
3. Charlotte, NC
3,191 residents per year
4. Greensboro-High Point, NC
1,976 residents per year
5. Washington, DC
1,891 residents per year
6. Greenville, NC
1,800 residents per year
7. Winston-Salem, NC
1,491 residents per year
8. Fayetteville, NC
1,439 residents per year
9. Wilmington, NC
1,263 residents per year
10. Boston, MA
983 residents per year
11. Chicago, IL
948 residents per year
12. Rocky Mount, NC
936 residents per year
Top Photo: Flickr/Citrix Systems
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